I got a letter from my gastroenterologist this morning. The biopsies they took during my colonoscopy show that I have lymphocytic colitis/collagenous colitis. I know...what's that? I had to look it up myself. It's apparently another autoimmune thing. It's a chronic condition which is going to require some lifestyle changes on my part. I'll probably ( Read more... )

                                       Slow Roasted Tomatoes

20 ripe tomatoes, stems removed, halved lengthwise
1/2 c. extra-virgin olive oil
3 Tbsp. sugar
2 Tbsp. mixed herbs including thyme rosemary and sage
1 Tbsp. kosher salt
1 Tbsp. fresh ground black pepper (coarse ground)

Preheat oven to 170 F (or lowest temperature on oven)

Place tomato halves ( Read more... )

I haven't posted anything in ages. Everyone has deserted ship for facebook and I'm one of the mob. I guess it's less daunting to just write a line or two once in awhile. On livejournal you feel like you need to at least have a meaty paragraph....or else do my cheating high school version of filling up blank space and put in pictures ( Read more... )

When I was in the hospital I was told that the medical profession no longer considers anyone to be borderline diabetic, you either are diabetic or you aren't. And apparently I are. So I'm trying very hard to keep my blood sugar stable and I've been frustrated for awhile by the lack of availability of sugarfree yogurt. So last week I bought a quart ( Read more... )

It's been another fairly long stretch with not too much to post about. I have been doing at least one status post a day on facebook (I'm not the least bit surprised that livejournal considers facebook a misspelled word...actually as I wrote that I came to realize that livejournal considers livejournal a misspelled word.), but one liners don't have ( Read more... )

I saw my cardiologist this morning and he said my stress test looked fine. I told him I find that all confusing because of what I was told at the hospital. After I filled him in on the conflicting reports I got from various doctors and PAs there, he said that a stress test done on a heavy person is hard to read especially when there is a lot of ( Read more... )

This past Thursday I woke up feeling kind of draggy. Then I started having chest pains and shortness of breath. Long story short, I ended up in the ER and then admitted into the hospital. I had a stress test and flunked it, but the cardiologist on duty decided to leave it up to my regular cardiologist to decide how to procede. So my primary care ( Read more... )

My husband got home from Minnesota this evening. He had spent the past week helping his mom get ready for and put on a garage sale. I guess it went pretty well. He said you can actually walk through the garage again and that hasn't been the case for quite some time. Anyway, he's glad to be home ( Read more... )

Wednesday Darry went into the local clinic having chest pains. The nitroglycerin the nurse practitioner gave him made them stop, but a few minutes later they came back. She gave him fluids and they went away again. I guess it was angina which is defined as chest pain or discomfort that occurs when an area of the heart is deprived of oxygen. It's ( Read more... )

...that still doesn't mean that I'm going to just blow off posting here. This is my record of what happened when in my life and I still need that. I've referred back lots of times when I couldn't recall when something happened ( Read more... )